Sustainable Management of Available Water Resources with Innovative Technologies (SMART)

In Cooperation with the Department of Applied Geology of the Georg-August-University in Göttingen / Germany

Research Interests:

Hydrology of arid and semi-arid environments

Runoff generation processes

Groundwater recharge

Experimental hydrology

Education

since 02 / 2011

PHD-Student and scientific employee at the Chair of Hydrology, Freiburg Topic of the Dissertation: “Hydrological modeling of catchment scale runoff-recharge processes under a strong, semi-arid, climatic gradient”

2010

Scientific Assistant at the Chair of Hydrology, Freiburg and the Department of Applied Geology, Göttingen

10 / 2004 - 03 / 2010

Diploma in Hydrology at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg Topic of the thesis: “Flood runoff processes and flood management in small catchments”

10 / 2008 - 12 / 2008

Internship at the Federal University of Mato Grosso in Cuiabá / Brazil within the long term project PELD (Projecto ecológico de longa duracão)

08 / 2006 - 09 / 2006

Internship at the Regional Government of Cusco / Peru in the area of the agricultural irrigation for small scale farmers in the Central Andes

Awards and Scholarships

02 / 2014 - 04 / 2014

Scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMBF) within the “Young Scientist Exchange Program” for a two month stay at the Department of Geography at the University of Haifa / Israel

02 / 2011 - 02 / 2014

Scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Science and Research (BMBF) in the framework of the Research and Development program “Sustainable Management of Available Water Resources with Innovative Technologies (SMART)”

05 / 2013

Best presentation award during the annual meeting of the Graduate School “Environment, Society and Global Change (ESGC)” 2013

05 / 2012

Best poster award during the annual meeting of the Graduate School “Environment, Society and Global Change (ESGC)” 2012

01 / 2011

Christian-Leibundgut-Award for the diploma thesis “Flood runoff processes and flood runoff management in small catchments”

07 / 2010

Alumni Award of the Faculty of Forest and Environmental Sciences, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany, for an excellent final exam, social engagement and an excellent master thesis